West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 79
... the proprietors furnish them yearly with salt - beef , Port , butter , Aour , split peale , barley , & c . and sometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the estates fupply them with vegetables , corn , sugar , rum , coffee , and ...
... the proprietors furnish them yearly with salt - beef , Port , butter , Aour , split peale , barley , & c . and sometimes with porter , cheese , and hams ; the estates fupply them with vegetables , corn , sugar , rum , coffee , and ...
الصفحة 84
He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the skeleton of a Nave , who had been “ done over " in this ...
He gave ftrict orders to the watchmen to hide every Nave which they might find breaking the corn or canes ; i . e . to chop and murder them , and bury them fecretly ; and when the skeleton of a Nave , who had been “ done over " in this ...
الصفحة 86
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overseers , most injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the meaneft capacity , that the richest soil ...
I must not omit to mention a very wrong practice of overseers , most injurious to proprietors in general ; that is , planting Indian corn , or peas , amongst the canes ; it is very evident to the meaneft capacity , that the richest soil ...
الصفحة 87
them up of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown : On his return , finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a luxurious stalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was ...
them up of his estate to a cabbage - headed gentleman in Kingstown : On his return , finding Indian corn flourishing through the canes ( for corn has a luxurious stalk , and has the advantage of canes in quick vegitation ) the corn was ...
الصفحة 89
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means ...
and gallantry with black and tawny wenches ; of their insulting tyrannic behaviour to their raw book - keepers , or exposing the blemishes of their absent neighbouring acquaintances ; or of corn and cane pieces ; and the ways and means ...
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